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Chapter Approved - the latest rules

So Warhammer Community unveiled more tidbits from Chapter Approved coming out later this year. Once again Games Workshop have shown their continued support to a more open game and better interactions with their customers, lets have a quick look at the updates they released.

The change to First turn I a big one, for me I know I have been building army lists with a view to making first turn a virtual guarantee (one of my list has 4 drops only....). This change means there is an advantage to having an elite army but it doesn't mean you will always go first.

It might have been nice to see that as more than a +1, maybe a +2, but overall I think this is a good change.

This well an truly puts the nail into the coffin of Raven Spam, now even if you have a couple of units you feel are safe to be on the table while your flyers run around shooting things, you aren't going to score objectives anywhere near as easily.

This was needed, as soon as they gave this to Space Marines in the codex, for competitiv play they really needed to make sure that other armies can't compete.

I would like to see units like Conscripts lose access to this when their codex comes out, however for now its a very good change!

What are your thoughts, a good change, a money grab, or something that should have been in the initial release?

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Its not really been a long time between the Index & Deathguard Codex release, but lets have a look at what the Deathguard get from this codex vs the Index.

Well as the Warhammer Community previews have shown the Deathward have gone from having only 5 units (in their original Dark Imperium release), upto 15 in the Chaos Index, and now again in their own Codex upto 34 units.

Remember this includes everything from Possessed to Poxwalkers.

From a points stand point where the same unit is available in Codex Chaos Space Marines (i.e Plague Marines) there are no points increases or decreases.

When comparing to the Index Chaos (which is what you would have had to be using with a Deathguard force) the Deathguard have had a points reduction on 9 units, and a points increase on 1 unit.

Lets start of with the point reductions (as per my last article like this I will be breaking them down to the nearest 5% to avoid infringing any copyrights here!)

Edited! But leaving up my wrong assumptions as I was wrong! To be clear, I now appreciate that the unit you summon requires the Daemonic Ritual rule to allow you to summon them, this reduces the initial lists (although you can see the updated list at the very bottom in yellow highlight) The aim of leaving this wrong article up is to show people that we can all make mistakes! As I didnt want to post something then be accused of hiding my mistakes, I ain't infallible!

With the Deathguard firmly in my sights as both a good opponent for my Ultramarines, and as my second army I have turned my head towards some considerations for their army lists, and specifically what they can look to summon as part of their Daemonic Ritual.

I do have a few questions meandering around my head (so any thoughts or opinions are welcomed).

First up lets look at the wording

The above rules doesnt read clearly to me, but I had it pointed out to me that the unit you summom must have the Daemonic Ritual ability- -…

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This time I went a little bit more crazy (and really not much of deep conversion work here), and cut the body off the legs, cut all of the shoulder's off of the guns. This allows me to do a bit more of an arm swap / torso twist to build this guy...

Not a massive change to the pose, but it does mean that three same models I had are all slightly different, and shouldnt look too samey while they hit you with their 18 BS5 Assault Cannon shots!